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Infographic of the Day: The Internet 10 years ago vs. today

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 6:50am

Do you remember what the Internet was like in 2002? Let's looks at some statistics: 10 years ago, 9.1% of the world population used the Internet for an average of 46 minutes each day and there were 3 million websites to browse. Now there are 555 million sites, and a third of the world is browsing them for up to four hours a day.

Watch kids in 1995 predict the future Internet with amazing accuracy

Michael Trei

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 6:44am

When you think about how it has come to take over our lives, it's easy to forget that the Internet landscape as we know it today is quite a recent thing. This hilarious 1995 PSA hammers that point home, with some fifth graders from Montana predicting what the Internet will become by the time they're in college.

ToSDR reads Terms of Service for you, exposes good and evil

Evan Ackerman

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - 2:29pm

Nobody reads Terms of Service agreements. You know it, I know it, and the companies that come up with them know it. Even if the stupid ToS box makes you scroll down the whole way before clicking "Accept," who would be crazy enough to wade through all that crap? Answer: ToS;DR, and you'll be glad they did.

First website ever created shows how far Web design has come

Raymond Wong

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 9:18am

Long before lolcats, Internet memes, and even DVICE, the Web was a barren land of white space just waiting to be conquered by hyperlinks and spinning gifs. 21 years ago yesterday, the first website was published and it looked — and still looks like — this.

Wi-Fi police sniff out illegal hotspots at the Olympics

Michael Trei

Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 4:43am

The Olympic organizers have made it pretty clear that they don't want you sucking up too much 3G bandwidth at the Olympic venues, but don't get the idea that you can sneak onto some stray Wi-Fi hotspot instead.

Infographic visualizes the Web's massive, constant flow of data

Eileen Marable

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 9:52am

We knew Web had hit the big time when it was honored via classy interpretive dance during the opening of the Olympics. There were star-crossed lovers texting and dancing galore, but where were the actual numbers? No self-respecting ode to data can be made without, well, actual data.

Google Street View gets all geeked out with ASCII-vision

Eileen Marable

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 8:23am

Google Street View has given us the keys to the next best thing to being there. They've covered just about every global biggie, but if that's failing to float your boat anymore there's a new mod in town. There's a team who have figured out how render Google Street View in ASCII.

The Internet Map depicts 350,000 websites as clusters of planets

Raymond Wong

Monday, July 30, 2012 - 9:43am

Mapping the Internet is no easy feat. Ruslan Enikeev took up the challenge and whipped up this interactive map that charts 350,000 websites with 2 million links from 196 different countries. It probably won't surprise you which website giants dominate the Internet.

Google advances world domination plans with Fiber

Kevin Hall

Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 10:39am

Google Fiber, the company's 1 gigabyte-per-second network that's "100 times faster than today's average broadband," just finished rolling out in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Or, rather, Fiber finished rolling out in just the pair of Kansas cities. This is what your net on Google looks — or could look — like.

Pic: This was the first photo ever uploaded to the Web

Raymond Wong

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 3:28pm

With all the photo uploading and sharing that we do today, we take it for granted that the Web once existed without photos. Unearthed for its 20th anniversary, here is the first photo ever published to the Web, in all of its cheesy glory.

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Infographic of the Day: The Internet 10 years ago vs. today

Watch kids in 1995 predict the future Internet with amazing accuracy

ToSDR reads Terms of Service for you, exposes good and evil

First website ever created shows how far Web design has come

Wi-Fi police sniff out illegal hotspots at the Olympics

Infographic visualizes the Web's massive, constant flow of data

Google Street View gets all geeked out with ASCII-vision

The Internet Map depicts 350,000 websites as clusters of planets

Google advances world domination plans with Fiber

Pic: This was the first photo ever uploaded to the Web

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